#Jay serial podcast season 1 full#

But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae's body. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was sentenced to life in prison. Or he was a bewildered bystander, framed for a crime he could never have committed. After 15 months of reporting, we take out everything we’ve got - interviews and documents and police reports - we shake it all out, and we see what sticks.A high-school senior named Hae Min Lee disappeared one day after school in 1999, in Baltimore County, Maryland. A month later, her body was found in a city park. ' On January 13, 1999, Adnan Syed was a hurt and vengeful ex-boyfriend who carried out a premeditated murder. But a couple of months ago, Sarah started getting phone calls from people who knew Adnan back then, and told her stories of a different kind of boy.' 'Almost everyone describes the 17-year-old Adnan the same way: good kid, helpful at the mosque, respectful to his elders. But Adnan was convicted, and a year later, Gutierrez was disbarred. Other lawyers said she was exactly the kind of person you’d want defending you on a first-degree murder charge. Cristina Gutierrez, a renowned defense attorney in Maryland – tough and savvy and smart. So, how did the jurors make sense of Jay? For that matter, how did the cops make sense of Jay? How are we supposed to make sense of Jay?'Įpisode 10 - The Best Defense is a Good Defense Naturally, Adnan’s lawyer tried hard to make Jay look untrustworthy at trial. 'The state’s case against Adnan Syed hinged on Jay’s credibility he was their star witness and also, because of his changing statements to police, their chief liability. Sarah called up one of the defense attorneys on that case to see if she could offer any insight into Adnan’s case, and got much more than she bargained for.' 'Adnan told Sarah about a case in Virginia that had striking similarities to his own: one key witness, incriminating cell phone records, young people, drugs - and a defendant who has always maintained his innocence.

So aside from cell records, what did the prosecutors bring to the jury, to shore up Jay's testimony? Sarah weighs all the other circumstantial evidence they had against Adnan, including curious behavior, a disconcerting note, and an unexplained mid-afternoon phone call.'Įpisode 7 - The Opposite of the Prosecution

'The physical evidence against Adnan Syed was scant - a few underwhelming fingerprints. So Sarah and Dana take up the challenge, and raise him one: They try to recreate the entire route that Jay said he and Adnan took on January 13th, 1999.' He told her to test the state’s timeline of the murder by driving from Woodlawn High School to Best Buy in 21 minutes. In other ways, they’re big and confounding.' In some ways, these changes are small and understandable. A few weeks later, he’s back at Homicide and his story has changed. He tells them what happened on January 13th. At first, he insists he doesn’t know anything about the murder. They find Jay at work late one night and bring him down to Homicide. 'A few days after Hae’s body is found, the detectives get a lead that opens the case up for them. A look into the man’s past reveals some bizarre behavior.'

For instance, why did he walk so far into the woods - 127 feet - to relieve himself? And that’s just the start. His odd recounting of the discovery makes Detectives Ritz and MacGillivary suspicious. A man on his lunch break pulls off a road to pee, and stumbles on her body in a city forest.

#Jay serial podcast season 1 full#

And then, depending on who you ask, Adnan was either understandably sad and moping around, or full of rage and plotting to kill her.' Both of them, but especially Adnan, were under special pressure at home, and the stress of that spilled over into their relationship. But unlike other kids at school, they had to keep their dating secret, because their parents disapproved. 'Their relationship began like a storybook high-school romance: a prom date, love notes, sneaking off to be alone. The trouble is, she’s nowhere to be found.' A classmate at Woodlawn High School says she knows where Adnan was. He says he's innocent - though he can't exactly remember what he was doing on that January afternoon. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day.